Metropolitan Opera: Billy Budd
This Saturday, the Met presents an archived performance of Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten.
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This Saturday, the Met presents an archived performance of Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten.
8 am ET: Wigmore Hall presents Michael Collins & Michael McHale. The clarinetist and pianist’s program includes Joseph Horovitz’s Sonatina which premièred at Wigmore Hall in 1981. Widor’s Introduction et rondo was composed in 1898. At its première in 1935, Bax’s clarinet sonata was actually played twice; it was repeated in the program when the sheet music for a work by Lennox Berkeley was lost in the post. Each of the four Time Pieces by Robert Muczynski highlights a characteristic of the clarinet in terms of range, technical prowess, tone color, and expressiveness. Register, vie...
Snape Maltings Concert Hall is ready to stage live music again Picture: MATT JOLLY - Credit: Archant Concerts will be resuming at the world famous Snape Maltings Concert Hall from the end of May marking the start of ‘Summer at Snape’. Britten Pears Arts will be returning to live music-making with audiences indoors at Snape Maltings from Friday May 21, subject to the rollout of the government’s roadmap. Live music is returning to Snape Maltings from May for a series of concerts called 'Summer at Snape' Photo:Philip Vile - Credit: Archant The first event sees the return of the BBC Sy...
Concerts will be resuming at the world famous Snape Maltings Concert Hall from the end of May marking the start of ‘Summer at Snape’.
Last modified on Mon 22 Feb 2021 00.21 EST Though most closely associated with the works of Benjamin Britten, the conductor Steuart Bedford, who has died aged 81 after complications from Parkinson’s disease, was able to turn his professionalism and interpretative talents to great advantage in a range of other repertory too. The operas of Mozart elicited from him an authoritative response over a number of years at Garsington Opera while it was based in Oxfordshire. Having launched his professional career with The Beggar’s Opera at Sadler’s Wells theatre in 1967, he went on to conduct his...